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From: bruce@tolerant.UUCP (Bruce Hochuli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Networking PCs, Macs, and Unix - what software?
Message-ID: <5911@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 21:35:11 GMT
References: <27212@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU: <666@suntops.Tops.Sun.COM:
Reply-To: bruce@handel.Tolerant.COM.UUCP (Bruce Hochuli)
Organization: Tolerant Software Inc., San Jose CA
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In article <666@suntops.Tops.Sun.COM: rdas@hatter.tops.sun.com (Robin Das) writes:
:In article <27212@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU: korfhage@CS.UCLA.EDU (Willard Korfhage) writes:
::I need to have IBM PC XTs, Macintoshes, and Unix machines cooperating on
::the same ethernet.
:
:Try TOPS from Sun Microsystems.  It features full peer to peer file sharing
:on Suns, MACs, and PCs.  It also does printer sharing.
:
:I am obviously biased, but it deserves a look anyway.


I am not biased. The last time I checked (about 14 months ago), TOPS
would only play with Sun UNIX and did not even want to know about
XENIX. One hopes that this is old information.